As True As His Own Existence

"Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust." (2 Peter 1:1 – 4, italics mine).

In considering 2 Peter 1:4, Charles Spurgeon said, “This word of His that you are now considering is as true as His own existence.” (italics mine).

This reminds me of Hebrews 6:13 - 14, “For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.”

Then we have Titus 1:1 – 3, “Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago, but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,…”

God’s Word “is as true as His own existence.” If God’s Word were to fail then it would mean that God would fail, and if God were to fail then there would be no existence, for Christ “upholds all things by the Word of His power” (Hebrews 1:3) and Christ “holds all things together” (Colossians 1:17).

Consider what assurance we have; the very Word of God that lives in us, that is on the pages of Scripture, is and was and is to come – it is rooted in the I AM THAT I AM (human language fails in these things). To encounter the Word of God is to encounter the Face of God, for the Word of God reveals Jesus Christ, He who is in the bosom of the Father (John 1:14 – 18).

The Word that lives in us is the Word that will carry us into eternity. This Word came into our lives from eternity past, into time and space, and this Word will bear us in its arms into eternity future – carrying us into that City whose Builder and Maker is God (Hebrews 11:8 – 16).

This Word is to live in us, breathe in us, flow through us; animating every fiber of our being – permeating spirit, soul, and body – drawing us into the Throne Room of our Father, unveiling the Lion of Judah and the Lamb of God. The Living Waters that we see in Revelation 22:1 are the Living Waters that we see in John 7:37 – 39.

As the Throne of our Father and Lord Jesus is established in us, from beneath that Throne Living Waters will flow from us, in Christ, to others. The headwaters from the New Jerusalem are to be gushing from His Bride unto the peoples of the world, there are to be fountains in us, springing up into eternal life (John 4:14).

His Word in us, “is as true as His own existence.”